The purpose of indexes is to be able to group the results of a set of tests together to create a single "Webpage Response" or "Availability" line, which can then be used as a benchmark to compare individual test results against.
For those tests which do not have "Webpage Response", it will report their "Response Time".
As the index is used as a high-level benchmarking tool, and to accommodate for different test types and more tests, there will not be the ability to do things like trimming, use tracepoints, insights, IP filtering, page selection, etc. It's a simple view of the response and/or availability.
This index can be made up of different types of tests as it only consists of Webpage Response and Availability.
Note: that this feature has to be enabled on a Client basis. Please contact your Customer Success Manager at Catchpoint to do this for you. For information on how to contact your CSM, take a look at our What Is & How Do We Contact CSM KB article.
Index Creation:
Once you have the feature enabled, you will see another item (Indexes) under your Settings.
Before selecting the tests, create the Index first. To create an Index, click on Indexes as shown above, and then click New.
Enter the name of the Index, a brief description if you would like, and then Save.
You will then see the Index listed on the indexes page. To the left, you will see a 3 dots that offers 3 options.
- View Properties allows you to change the name and the description.
- Delete means that you can permanently delete the index.
- View Tests will take you to the Tests view and list all of the tests within there.
Populating Tests into the Index:
The Index data will begin to be gathered and calculated only from when the tests are added to the Index. If a test is removed, then the data will only reflect that from the moment it is removed.
There are two ways to add tests to an index.
- In the Tests tab, and under a product or folder, where you see a list of tabs.
You have the option to select multiple tests and then click on the "Edit Index" button. Select the Index (already created) and click the Add button to add the selected tests to the Index.
- Within each individual test, under the More Setting Option, is the location where you can select which Index to assign the test to.
Viewing the Index data.
Once the index begins populating, you will be able to view it alongside your normal tests. This allows you to compare how a test/or group of tests are performing in relation to the overall average of the tests within the Benchmark Index.
You can enable the index data and chose the metrics you want to plot in the Explorer.
Please note that an individual test can only be assigned to ten Indexes maximum, and each Division can have up to ten indexes.